20Synonyms found for apartment

Word Origin & History

apartment 1640s, "private rooms for the use of one person within a house," from Fr. appartement (16c.), from It. appartimento, lit. "a separated place," from appartere "to separate," from a "to" + parte "side, place," from L. partem (see part). Sense of "set of private rooms in a building entirely of these" (the U.S. equivalent of British flat) is first attested 1874.

Example Sentences for apartment

Or the cake could be an apartment that has small rooms with views and large windowless rooms.

Our old apartment is sitting empty, and not selling.

Somewhere in an outlying district of this post-Soviet capital, four graduate students gather in a two-room apartment.

Armed police in flak vests surged into her apartment.

Improving energy efficiency in a rental apartment requires attention to the same details as in a house or condominium.

In a large apartment building, it's impossible to avoid the neighbors.

Still, many brokers and developers take heart from the fact that apartment buyers are back in the market.

They are back at school with their friends and living with me in an apartment complex with a swimming pool and a movie theater.

Explore the roof, with its whimsical chimney towers, and the apartment restored in the style of the period.

As more would-be homeowners look to rent, apartment prices are feeding inflation while home prices continue to fall.